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by shirro 13y ago
Too soon. There are third party components still struggling to update to 1.2.
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by shirro 13y ago
I guess when you are building killer dog robots for the defence department "Do No Evil" becomes more of an ironic catchphrase than a statement of principles.
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by shirro 13y ago
Australia Post has had 3 consecutive years of growth with a group profit of $312 million after tax last year. They offset their regulated business (eg mail delivery) which loses $218 million a year with things like parcel delivery that are
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by shirro 13y ago
Is it common for people to still swipe cards in some counties? I pay nearly all my small purchases with RFID and bigger ones with chip and pin.
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by shirro 13y ago
Keeping a clean home is about discipline and not gender. Some people take it to OCD levels and others are negligent but there is a reasonable middle ground. Cleaning up after yourself is an attribute of adulthood. If you can't do it yo
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by shirro 13y ago
It is now available to all boys aged 12-13 through a school based vaccination program in Australia. Same as girls.
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by shirro 13y ago
While this might make Go unsuitable for embedded use it doesn't invalidate it for a server backend where data structures, cache and database storage dwarf the executable size. It is still easier to ship a single statically linked go ex
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by shirro 13y ago
Turkey is really close to London. Domestic traffic in Australia travels further than that. It is quite a different matter round tripping packets across the pacific to another continent. I can do minor edits on a Linode but I much prefer usi
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by shirro 13y ago
I live on a big island in the southern hemisphere. Working remotely on a Linode is painful due to latency even with mosh. I tied Fremont for ages but the latency was too much so I moved to Tokyo which is a little better but I still prefer t
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by shirro 13y ago
The MacBook Pro used to be an easily upgradable device which was a great choice for developers. It had superb build quality and you could easily develop for Mac, Windows, Linux, Web, iOS and Android on a single machine without too much mess
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by shirro 13y ago
Crazy. Zero chances of that auto-rotating you safely down to earth when you lose power.
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by shirro 13y ago
You seem to have the wrong site. Try posting to http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
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by shirro 13y ago
I can imagine the tech support calls. "Have you tied taking it off and on again?"
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by shirro 13y ago
I searched through the site but couldn't find the "Microsoft backdoors your computer" t-shirt.
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by shirro 13y ago
I admit I don't like Abbott but using terms like concentration camps isn't fair to Australia. We have a very multicultural country with large migrant intake and we take in a reasonable number of asylum seekers. We are a very desir
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by shirro 13y ago
It isn't the MSG that will kill you. MSG, sugar and salt are all naturally occurring in health food and the key is moderation and balance. The problem is we have turned something which is harmless in moderation into a massive food busi
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by shirro 13y ago
A guy who doesn't know much about computers and who draws cartoons likes that he can run his old Windows cartoon software on a touch screen laptop PC without a keyboard. It is basically an "I like Surface Pro because it isn't
528.
by shirro 13y ago
I would rather be in Kansas than Oz. I was only a couple of years from FTTH before the luddites got elected.
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by shirro 13y ago
I stumbled upon this post recently and I love it. It summarises very nicely my own feelings. I went down the path of exploring HATEOS and Collection+JSON and it all started to feel like enterprise architecture style over complication for ve
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by shirro 13y ago
Much more likely it belongs to the NSA.
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by shirro 13y ago
Roundabouts can be too big or too small. The worst types are the retrofitted ones in tiny inner suburban streets installed as hazards to slow through traffic and the huge ones on massive lopsided intersections with more than 4 exits where y
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by shirro 13y ago
The MBP is one of the most functional devices available. The wanky, hipster appeal is way overplayed. Plenty of people use them inspite of their image. Phones satisfy the mobile convergence thing between organisers, phones, cameras and hand
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by shirro 13y ago
Brew http://brew.sh/ Free Sublime Text https://www.sublimetext.com/ $70 per user (install it on multiple machines and it is cheap) Transmit http://panic.com/transmit/ $34
534.
by shirro 13y ago
I am not a parliamentary expert but there are lots of ways I think. Not passing a supply bill (equiv to the budget crisis) would trigger an election, not passing a non-supply bill repeatedly can be a trigger, a motion of no-confidence in th
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by shirro 13y ago
We get half senate elections, not 1/3, but a similar result with the senate being out of step with the reps. Which is why in a crisis the double dissolution is a whole senate election to try and get things moving again. It seems odd th
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by shirro 13y ago
Isn't there anything in the US constitution to break deadlocks? In Australia if the government can't get a bill through the senate, they can try again in 3 months and if it still doesn't go through then it can be used a trigg
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by shirro 13y ago
Probably still trying to shift their old stock.
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by shirro 13y ago
Rupie's dad was briefly the Australian Director General for Information during WWII but apparently nobody could stand him. Our answer to Goebbels. They don't fall far from the tree.
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by shirro 13y ago
I was a couple of years away here but I was really looking forward to the NBN. Telstra has the only ADSL ports in town and pricing for what by world standards is a reasonably shit service is crazy. If I have to munge a lot of data I just do
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by shirro 13y ago
Keep in mind that Rupert Murdoch owns half of Foxtel which is the main cable tv network in Australia as well as owning most of the newspapers (he has a monopoly in several states). The argument that you can watch tv from companies like Netf

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